I was delighted to work with colleagues at FE News’ Breaking Barriers event on a construction job. We worked to take apart the youth employment...
For too long, the national conversation around success has treated university as the default route into a professional career. Yet across the UK, thousands of...
At the start of this month, leaders from across government, further education, skills, employability and employer groups gathered for the Breaking Barriers Collective, hosted by...
There is a particular kind of honesty that emerges when a room full of practitioners, advocates and leaders agrees to stop being polite about a...
The publication of the Milburn interim review on young people and work arrives at an important moment for England’s education, employment and skills system. With...
Something struck me recently at the Breaking Barriers / NEET Collective, held in central London on 2nd June 2026 - a FE News and Edge...
Recently, I visited PET-Xi in Coventry, and I left with a feeling I know all too well: admiration, frustration and a deep sense of déjà...
Practitioners, leaders, researchers and advocates gathered in London to do something the sector urgently needed: not just name the problem, but co-design the route out...
There’s a gulf between where many NEET young people are and where employers need them to be so that they can thrive in a job. The UK must find ways to bridge that gulf -...
Alan Milburn’s Young People and Work interim report should land as a national alarm bell. Nearly one million young people are now not in education,...
It’s all about the learner, and building a culture of lifelong learning.
After becoming a casualty of lockdown, work experience is well and truly back yet new research shows students are struggling to make the most of…
London Learning Consortium is a training provider based in the heart of Croydon. They have just launched their NEW Study Programme courses which are in…
Two dedicated student nutritionists from the University of Chester have been shortlisted for a national award. Fiona Macintosh and Kaitlyn Black are in the forerunning…
Unite Students, the UK’s leading owner, manager and developer of student accommodation, today announces an update on current trading and quarterly property valuations for the…
The Unite Students 2023 Applicant Index is the only research of its kind to survey applicants before they arrive at university Unite Students updated its…
We were #OnLocation at the EdTechX Summit where we had the opportunity to interview Stavros N. Yiannouka, CEO of WISE. In this exclusive interview, Stavros N. Yiannouka…
A Nuneaton social enterprise offering supported internships to young people with special educational needs and disabilities has been named the winner of a national Festival…
Gen Z are witnessing an era of diverse opportunities that go beyond traditional academic degrees. These include courses, apprenticeships, gap years, entry-level jobs, and internships.…
Associations representing England’s colleges and college leaders are fully supporting the call being made in a debate scheduled today (Wednesday 5 July) in the House…
Uni Compare has just released its 2023/24 ranking looking at every university in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to unveil the top 100 universities…
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